Revolution, Defeat and Theoretical Underdevelopment: Russia, Turkey, Spain, Bolivia: 122 (Historical Materialism Book Series, 122) - Hardcover

Goldner, Loren

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 9004298525 ISBN 13: 9789004298521

Publisher: Brill, 2016

Synopsis

The historical studies presented here examine four ideologies― Leninism, Trotskyism, anarchism, and anti-imperialism― still with us, however different and diffuse in form. They are a contribution to the worldwide Marx renaissance of recent decades which has helped clear away the legacies of the Second, Third and Fourth Internationals, not to mention of the ‘real existing socialism’ of the Soviet Union and its bastard progeny.

These revolutionary predecessors did not fail because ‘they had the wrong ideas’; in contrast to today, they were merely embedded in an earlier dynamic where capitalism, globally, was not yet fully dominant. The cases of Russia, Turkey, Spain and Bolivia allow us to measure the distance between their epoch and our own, and to clear away their problematic legacies.

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About the Author

Loren Goldner is a writer-activist who co-edits Insurgent Notes. He has published numerous articles and several books, including Ubu Saved From Drowning: Worker Insurgency and Statist Containment in Portugal and Spain, 1974-1977 (2000), Vanguard of Retrogression: Postmodern Fictions as Ideology in the Era of Fictitious Capital (2001), and Herman Melville: Between Charlemagne and the Antemosaic Cosmic Man. Race, Class and the Crisis of Bourgeois Ideology in an American Renaissance Writer (2006), all with Queequeg Publications.

Edition details

• Publisher: Brill
• Publication date: 2016
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 9004298525
• ISBN 13: 9789004298521
• Binding: Hardcover
• Number of pages: 258